Federal authorities are looking for a leader of the Los Angeles gang suspected of murder and trafficking in people

Los Angeles (AP)-the US authorities are looking for a leader of a street gang of Los Angeles who, according to the investigators, directed a criminal company “Mafia” that included murders, trafficking of people and extortion while also working as an entertainment entrepreneur, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday.

Eugene Henley Jr., known as “Big U”, was one of the 18 members of the neighborhood crypts of the 60s, accused of a federal complaint of a litany of federal crimes, which include drug trafficking, conspiracy and crimes of firearms, said the office of the United States prosecutor in a statement.

Ten gang members were arrested this week, while Henley, 58, and two others are considered fugitive, according to the statement. Some defendants were already in custody.

Henley allegedly a teacher of a criminal operation that the investigators called the “Grand Company or”, and it is also suspected that embezzlement to the development options, an anti-gang beneficial organization that he founded, but that prosecutors say he used “as a front for fraudulent purposes and isolate their members of the suspicions by the law.”

It is suspected that in the murder of 2021 of an aspiring rap musician who was signed with his recording company, UNEEK Music, according to prosecutors.

The rapper, identified in judicial documents such as “RW”, was allegedly murdered by Henley after he recorded a “defamatory song” about the gang leader in a study by Las Vegas, prosecutors said. RW’s body was found in a trench of interstatal 15 in the Nevada desert.

The prosecutors said that Henley directed the company as a mafia chief and used his height and long -standing association with the Rollin ’60 and other street gangs to intimidate companies and individuals in Los Angeles.

“The company not only expanded its power through violence, fear and intimidation, but also used social media, documentaries, podcasts, interviews and Henley’s status platforms as an ‘OG’ (original gangster) to create fame and fear of the great company U, its members and its associates,” said the United States statement.

Henley is accused of organizing criminal activities, including extortion, theft, trafficking and exploitation of sex workers, fraud and illegal play. In addition, it is suspected that it presents a fraudulent application for a loan of pandemic relief COVID-19 for music without eeite.

It was not known on Wednesday if Henley has a lawyer. If it is convicted, you could face a maximum legal judgment of life in the federal prison.